Richard Meier Quotes

The words "environment," "medium" denote something more than surroundings which encompass an individual. They denote the specific continuity of the surroundings with his own active tendencies.

Cultural comparisons are good because they can tell you about what's similar, but also sometimes they make it easier to see obvious differences.

One can state, without exaggeration, that the observation of and the search for similarities and differences are the basis of all human knowledge.

I think a setting is hugely important. I look at setting as a character with its own look, sound, history, quirks, goofy temperaments and moods.

Nothing can happen nowhere. The locale of the happening always colours the happening, and often, to a degree, shapes it.

I can see that you are a true historian because you really always ought to ask that question about anybody at a different place or a different time: What's the same and what's different?

Politics, nature, and what is happening all over the world is important to who we are and where we live.

We are what we see. We are products of our surroundings.

Even if one is interested only in one's own society, which is one's prerogative, one can understand that society much better by comparing it with others.

So much of design is context.

If you ask me, the place that a story happens is as equal character. It's almost like an ecological viewpoint: These people are living in this piece of land, and in this piece of land in this time this is possible. For me, I almost think location first. It's time first - what year is it - then where are we, and then who is in it.

'The Skeptical Environmentalist' was much more the idea of the scientific argument of realizing that we need to be skeptical about a lot of these stories that we hear and to put them in context.

The environment is everything that isn't me.

Your connections to all the things around you literally define who you are.

Where you are defines what you're interested in.

History is not intelligible without geography.

My technique has always been to include all the periphery around me.

In terms of work, I'm doing exactly the same as I've always done. It's what's around me that's changed.

Things don't happen in a vacuum, and artists don't make work in a vacuum.

Something that has been every important to me in all my projects has been location, the place where they are installed.

Place is the greatest thing, as it contains all things.

The present is always invisible because its environmental. No environment is perceptible, simply because it saturates the whole field of attention.

Just because life signifies not bare passive existence (supposing there is such a thing), but a way of acting, environment or medium signifies what enters into this activity as a sustaining or frustrating condition.

I'm a product of my environment.

The differences between a competent person and an incompetent person are demonstrated in his environment (surroundings).